ADFS 4.0 idpinitiatedsignon Error

Hi all,

The other day I was creating an ADFS lab in order to test some features and configurations, as you will probably know, a quick way to test an ADFS deployment is to access the idpinitiatedsignon sign page.

After I deployed my ADFS farm, I tried to access and I received the following error message: “The resource you are trying to access is not available. Contact your administrator for more information.”

At the beginning it was annoying, because I was thinking that I did someone incorrectly, so I spend some time thinking about what I did wrong, I checked the event log and I saw the following:

Description:
Encountered error during federation passive request.

Additional Data

Protocol Name:
Relying Party:
Exception details:
Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.IdPInitiatedSignonPageDisabledException: MSIS7012: An error occurred while processing the request. Contact your administrator for details.
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.Protocols.Saml.IdpInitiatedSignOnRequestSerializer.ReadMessage(WrappedHttpListenerRequest httpRequest)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.Protocols.Saml.HttpSamlMessageFactory.CreateMessage(WrappedHttpListenerRequest httpRequest)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.Protocols.Saml.SamlContextFactory.CreateProtocolContextFromRequest(WrappedHttpListenerRequest request, ProtocolContext& protocolContext)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.Protocols.Saml.SamlProtocolHandler.CreateProtocolContext(WrappedHttpListenerRequest request)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.PassiveProtocolListener.GetProtocolHandler(WrappedHttpListenerRequest request, ProtocolContext& protocolContext, PassiveProtocolHandler& protocolHandler)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.PassiveProtocolListener.OnGetContext(WrappedHttpListenerContext context)

So, indeed what it is saying is that the idpinitiatedsignon property is disabled. So, to check if it is this, you can execute the following PS command in the ADFS farm:

Get-AdfsProperties | fl *idpinitiatedsignon*

As you can see in the picture, it was disabled, so in order to solve this problem, just run the following command:

Set-AdfsProperties -EnableIdpInitiatedSignonPage $true

After that, all my problems were solved 😊

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